Clearly we don't need lidar!
Direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors
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The day I heard that was the day I realized he's a fucking idiot and I wanted nothing to do with his cars/tech.
Judging by how things have turned out...damn was that a good decision lmao
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I’m kinda confident that even RADAR + cameras was good enough, but they started shipping cars without it and even shutting off the RADAR in existing cars.
The main negative about LiDAR is the cost, but that’s quickly going down.
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To any artists in Austin,TX: you have your work cut out for you. Godspeed.
I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn't bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough "self driving" capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.
They tested a LiDAR rigged car, and it stopped just like you predicted. As of 2021, Tesla uses only cameras for FSD, and not even radar (which my stupid fine Toyota truck has).
They tested the idea safely by building the wall out of styrofoam, or at least that's what it looks like when it blows apart :)
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I tried Waymo when I was visiting LA a few months ago. Genuinely terrific stuff.
I do not trust Teslas one bit though.
Tesla doesn't use lidar for its sensing, living on the prayer that AI will just get good enough soon enough. Absolutely galaxy brained decision.
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To be fair, I'd be surprised if half the humans driving didn't do the same.
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Taking a guess here, but I think Mark Rober is not a big trump/musk fan? :D
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Tesla is trash.
Fuck Elon musk.